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Detailed Description

Since the retirement of pirut in F9, fedora users have no way of making any use of the several installation CDs or the DVD media, there is no package manager front end that support media repos.
The current solution is to copy the rpm files and make a locale repo, which is not a simple task for a typical desktop user.

the method is already implemented in pirut it's called pirutCDHandler, but it depends on HAL, maybe we need to port it to DeviceKit.

How To Test

make an installation from DVD media accept the defaults

add a package that is in the DVD but was not installed by default

User Experience

PackageKit API now supports media change, it should display "Please insert so and so CD/DVD"

Dependencies

PackageKit

Yumex

Yum (if we want this feature in yum-cli)

Contingency Plan

this is an added feature, we are going to use PackageKit and Yumex without it as we used todo.

Documentation

how to add/remove a media repo

how to disable/enable a media repo

Release Notes

This functionality adds the ability in PackageKit and Yumex to utilize installation media (DVD and CDs) and prompt the use insert it which helps people with no internet connection and save bandwidth for those who have internet connection.